- HTML is a language for describing web pages
- HTMLis not a programming language, it is a mark up language
- A mark up language is a set of mark up tags
- HTML uses mark up tags to describe web pages
HTML tags
- HTML markup tags are useally called HTML tags
- HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
- the first tag in a pair is the start tag the second tag is the end tag
- start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
